Stand Ready: Military Health and Nutrition Examination Study

Status: Recruiting
Location: See all (3) locations...
Study Type: Observational
SUMMARY

The Military Health and Nutrition Examination Study (MHANES) is a Department of Defense funded study conducted by Pennington Biomedical Research Center and the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine. This cross-sectional study will assess, in a large, diverse sample of Army Service Members (n=600), food and supplement intake, cardiovascular health, body composition, biomarkers of nutritional status, measures of health status, injury prevalence, mental wellbeing, gut microbiome composition, and physical performance outcomes. The proposed study is modeled after the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and customized for the Army population.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: t
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• U.S. Army Soldiers ≥ 18 years old

• Willing to have biological samples stored for future use

• Willing to have data linked to the Soldier Performance, Health, and Readiness (SPHERE) database

Locations
United States
Kentucky
Fort Campbell
RECRUITING
Fort Campbell North
Louisiana
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
RECRUITING
Baton Rouge
Fort Johnson
RECRUITING
Leesville
Contact Information
Primary
Claire E Berryman, PhD, RD
Claire.Berryman@pbrc.edu
(225) 763-3010
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-08-24
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-12-01
Participants
Target number of participants: 600
Treatments
Active-duty Army Service Members
All measures will be collected one time during the study, except for the dietary recall (measured two times).
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Collaborators: U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov